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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-22
ALay Sermon,

During the absence of DR.. Scudder
from Madison Square church, upon his
summer vacation, the pulpit OF that
church is supplied Sunday evenings by
lay preachers who are taken from the
membership. These services are quite
novel and as interesting as novel. On
last eveaing the reading desk was Occu-
pied by DR.. Fred NJ. Taylor of this city.
The subject of the discourse was
Christian Music and its worth"
Music was defined as the art which en-
plOys sounds for such artistic expression
as is not found in literature, painting,
sculpture, acting or architecture. The
indefiniteness of musical expression was
freed from the charge OF inexpensive
ness-the term universal language" so
often applied TO music was declared a
misnomer-tbe identity of our idea of
the word with the Harmonic and
Melodia Of the Greek was set forth and
the origin of music considered.
Without attempting any close synop-
sis of the very carefully prepared and
instructive discourse, 1t is proper to say
that the growth of music as a science
was closely traced from the days of the
Egyptians to our own period-the dis
tinctiOns were drawn between secular
and religious music-special atten-
tiOn WAS given TO the psalmOdy Of the
Hebrews and the chanting of the Greeks.
The means used to restore and preserve
In the western church the ven
cradle melodies of the ancient
church were pointed out, the
successive stages of this restoration,
and the development OF church music as
well from the days of Ambrose OF Milan
in the fourth century TO the days of
Luther. and from Luther to Wesley, and
from Wesley to Moody aud SaDkey were
very succinctly shown.
The effect OF music upon the ordinary
mind and conscience was illustrated as
well as asserted and some very interest,"
ing data given. The effect of the old
church liturgies, the old Roman forms,
the "glOrias," "re Drums," and
ANTHEMS" of that Old church was
flashed upon the page OF modern devO-
tiOn with excellent adaptation and
marked mpressivencss. The universally
of the love of music, and its influence
upon devotion. upon the heart, and up
on the sensibilites was not lost sight of
and the whole exquisitely rounded up
with reference to some of the sublimest
strains of the great hymnOlOgy of the
ages.
The delivery of the speaker was
good, enumeration clear and utterance
distinct, manner quiet yet animated.
The service rs q whole being most ac-
CeptAble
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-22
ReCorder'S Court.
s. Lopez, drunk. So.
G. B. JOHNSTON.

s. Lopez, drunk. So.
Geo. Belts, disorderly, $40.
BsrtOlO Gonzales, drunk and disorder
ly, SIS.
Abel Rubio, drunk and disorderly,
$l5.
Henry Williams, refusing to pay hack
fare. So.
John Mclaughlin, soliciting passen-
gers at depot, S..
l.. Soto, quarreling and fighting, dis.
missed.
Ed. Kotula, quarreling and lighting,
dismissed.
A. Rodrigues, quarreling and fighting,
dismissed.
David Arlington, quarreling and
fighting, continued.
j. Addington, quarreling and fighting,
continued.
Peter Lamb, disorderly, 81.
Dave Burns, violating locomotive or
dinsnce, continued.
c. f. Lunday, violating locomotive or
dinance, continued.
John Ryan, drunk and disOrderly, $40.
Capt. Shardein, with all these fines.
did not collect cent of them in cash.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-22
FAREWELL ENTERTAINMENT
Given by the Singing and Social
Club to Herman Dreiss and
Fred BTaden.


Club to Herman Dreiss and
Fred Braden.
The San Antonio Singing and Social
club gave grand hop at Muth's pavil-
ion on Saturday night as farewell en-
tertainment to Herman Dress and Fred
Braden, and 1t 10 questionable whether
a merrier party ever assembled in the
city. At the opening OF the proceed
ings the club, under the direction OF
Prof. Kreutner, ard the Quartette club,
gave some very pleasant musical seleO-
lions, and then dancing INDUCED in I'M
til midnight, when q break in the pro-
ceedings occurred to enable Mr..
Gus Schneider, on the part of the society,
to deliver an able address, eulOgiZlng
the character OF the young men, recOg-
niZing their services to the club, and
bidding them an afleCTiOnate farewell.
To this address, Messrs. Dreiss and
Braden, made suitable acknowledgment
Then dancing was resumed and con-
tInued until O'Clock, when special cars
brought the party to the city. Among
those present were the Misses Louisa
Feltmann, Ida Dress, Annie Deussen
Lula McAlister, Mia and Amelia La
coste, Frederick Seligmann, Mary and
Adelaide Hernandez, Emily Weting,
Ida and Annie SchultZe, Lula Campbell,
Hulda and Ida Koerps, Katie Cook OF
Galveston, Mary Haenel, Lena Degen,
Lima Ward, Mary Rummel and
Alice Black. Messrs. Hermann Dress,
Fred Braden, w. Heberer, l.. j. LacOste,
Isidore Cahen, E. Newman, Ed. Meal
lister, Sam Levin, Max Schultze, W.
Sengg, Geo. Clifford, w. Wurzbsch, Ed.
Hoyer, Edgar and Gilbert Schramm, w.
Schuwirth, of Lavernia, w. Deussen, IL.
Graebner, II. Jonas, Carl, VIM. and
Moritz Kalteyer, c. Amelong, Fritz
Rummel, Ii. Hoerner, w. Hoefgen, and
the representatives Of the LIGHT and
Gossip"
1t should be added that the music,
furnished by Prof. Muth, VIM. Muth and
Prof. Held, was excellent IN every way
and deserved the Communications il re-
ceiyed
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Dismissed,

II. X. NJ. HObson, arrested on a charge
OF seduction, WAS dismissed this morn
ing by Justice Barnes, on the testimony
of the girl, Alice Dukes, who was
brought back from Kennedy last Satur-
day night by her brOther-in-law, Ed.
Frederick. She is now stopping at her
brother. in-law's house, and refuses posi-
lively to return to Watkins, her guar
dian, who keeps the Adams house, de-
claring she will suicide first. She states
that during Mrs. HObsons visit here,
that lady saw how badly she was treated
by her guardian, and offered her home
with her. Mr.. HObson was only carry
ing out his wife's wishes when be sent
her OIL ahead of him last Thursday. She
says she has lived with Watkins since
she was twelve years Of age, and he has
subjected her to all sorts Of abuse.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-22
HOTEL RRIVALS.

SOUTHERN HOTEL.-E A Armstrong, San
Marcos; Geo. SOut herlaud and John G oxen
ford, Austin; Mrs John Wade, Kyle; q s
HutChins, Austin;S Ray, DenisOn; II Water
man, Chicago; w Smith, BeCvile;J Crisp,
Tvaldc; II B Turner, Beeyillc; l. DOnaham
and VIM Rtgland, COtuila; McClarhCrty,
Luling; Miss Lena Haden, La Place. Ala;
4 Atkinson, gildCn; w T. McAndTcw, Macon,
La; Il Malone. New Orleans; A Clements,
st Louis; w r Iron, San Marcos; p W Gala
CHER, SpoGOrd Junction; Judge II Lada,
Piedras Negras; + B WOfOTd, Temple; G Mar
tin, akland; z D EIIIs, COtnIIA.
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The Red and White Ribbon club sur
prised Mr.. August DObrowalsky last
night in honor of his 18th birthday and
merry time they had. There were
games. dancing, etc., and it was half
past one O'Clock ere the company
thought OF returning to their homes.
The surprise party consisted Of the
Misses Martha Cheislik, Tena and Mary
Gorrell, Mary NOcker, Mary and Rosie
Halsmuda. Nellie Landauer, Emma Du-
biel, and Messr-. Fritz List, Geo. Hala-
muda, Geo. GVrrell, Henry Killing, Joe
Nocker, Ed. DObrowalski, 4. M.
Cheislik, Theo. Weiss, Jr., Joe Dugosh,
and Tom WatZlavZik.
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Struck Petroleum.

Mrs. Stautz, dairy woman living
about miles south Of the city. has been
lately boring we'll for water and Satur-
day last, at a depth of ~ feet, the drill
struck dirt that is found to be strongly
impregnated with petroleum. Speci-
mems have been brought to this city and
examined by experts, who pronounce 1t
as of the very best.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-22
Knocked Down and Run Over.

Yesterday as Corporal Max Fues. of
the Belknap Rifles, was returning from
the springs, he met with a serious acct
dent by which he was somewhat injured
and which might have had a more Sc
rious result. 1t seems that Max was
allghting from car when double team
came along at rapid rate, and before
he could get away he was knocked down
and run over. Fortunately no bones
were broken, and beyond some severe
bruises, no material injury was done,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-22

When fragile woman signs, deplOring
The charms that quickly fade away,
What power, the bloom of health restoring,
Can check the progress of decay
The only aid that's worth attention,
For pains and ills of such description,
Thousands of women gladly mention
'Tis "PeTce's FayOrite Prescription"
The price of this royal remedy, DR.. Pierce's
FavOrite Prescription, is but one dollar SDc-
Citic for all those chronic ailments and weak
nessess peculiar to women The only mcdi
cine for such malades, sold by druggists. I'M
der positive guarantee from the manufaC.
turers, that it will give satisfaction or money
refunded. See guarantee on bottle wrapper
Large bottles 81. Six for S.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-22
An employe of the Southern Pacific

IAN empIOye Of the Southern Pacific
railway laid on the track yesterday near
Beaumont and went to sleep. When a
train came along, the engine simply
knocked him down a ten-feet Pmbank-
ment where he awOke, scratched his
head where the pilot struck him, and
got up. He was brought to the hospital
in this city this morning.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-22
Alamo. German and English School,.

Having been ousted from Firemen's
Hall, No. 2, shall on Sept. 9TH next. re-
open my school ut corner of Crockett
and BOnham streets, near Alamo plaza.
1T W. SCHUwIRTH.
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MISS INFORMATION!

Ny Perfumery and Drugs are most worthy Of
Estimation, after long and serious COnsidera-
ton, of the Reputation, my ljOTrple Extracts
are having in your Nation, have taken a seri-
Gus Inclination. and removed my HabitatiOn,
to n close 3lS East Commerce street situation,
in order that all may pay Visitation, for the
sake of buying and having a frequent Con-
versation, III my Domestic and Imported Per-
flmery shall meet with your Appreciation,
YOU will homeward wend your way without
Stimulation, and ! will remain ever yours,
ALTERATION.
Prescriptions carefully compounded. Open
day and night. Telephone No. 2gB.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-03-31
.Jefferson Democracv.


Freedom of religion; freedom OF
the press; encouragement of com
merce.
Economy in the public expense
the supremacy Of civil over the
military authority.
The honest payment of our debts
and the sacred preservation of the
national faith.
Equal and exact justice to all mer
of whatever state or persuasion, re
ligious or political.
Peace, commerce and honest
friendship with all nations; entan
Cling alliance with none.
A jealous care of the right Of cleo
ton by The people, and absolute
| acquiesCence in the decision of til,
majority.
Freedom OF the person under th'
protection of the sacred habea
corpus and trial by Juries impartial
ly selected.
The preservation of the genera
govern ment in it's whole constitu.
tional vigor, as the anchor of tn
peace at home and safety abroad
| The support of the state govern
ments in all their rights as til
most competent administrators Q
our domestic concerns; the sures
bulwarks against antl-republica
tendencies.
No duty should be levied exceE
on imports; and no duty should b
levied on imports except to rals
revenue necessary for the main tie
nance of an economically admins
tered government.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-03-31

NV homeless friend with the
chromatic nose, while you are stir
ring up the sugar in that ten-cent
glass of gin, let me give you TACT
to wash down with it. You cay you
have longed for years for the free,
independent life of the farmer, but
have never been able to get enough
money together to buy farm. But
this is just where you are mistaken.
For several years you have been
drinking q good improved farm at
the rate of one hundred square feet
a gulp. If you doubt this state
ment figure it for yourself. An acre
of land contains 1850 square feet.
Estimating for convenience the
land at $43 Sc per acre, you will see
that this brings the land to just one
mill per square foot, one cent for
ten square feet. Now pour down
that fiery dose and just imagine you
are swallowing strawberry patch.
Call in five of your friends and have
them help you gulp down that SOC
foot garden. Get on a large spree
some day and see how long it will!
take you to swallow a pasture big
enough to feed a COW. Put down
that glass of gin there is dirt in it
loo square feet of good, rich dirt,
worth $43. Sc per acre.
But there are plenty of farms
which do not cost more than a
tenth part of 1886 per acre. What
an enormous acreage has gone down
many homeless drinkers throat
No wonder such men are buried in
"the potter's field" They have
swallowed farms, and gardens, and
homes, and even their own grave
yard. H. L. Hastings.
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Mahomet as a Prohibitionist.

Who is the most effective prohi
bitionist in history? Mahomet, be-
yond question. When he began his
mission, drunkenness of the most
bestial kind was one of the prevail
ing vices among the Arabs. Ma
homet wsged upon it a relentless
warfare, and before he died had ex
tinguished it and kindred vices
throughout the mighty nation
which he had builded up from a few
scattered tribes. His work endured
and to-day among the millions o.
Mussulmans drunkenness is I'M
known. Mahomet taught his fol
lowers that drunkenness was &
crime and he burned that into their
consciences so deep that for more
than II centuries it has kept the
blood of a passionate people free
from the dangerous fire of alcoholic
Observation-Disclosures Constitution
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A Philosophical Answer.

The value of services rendered
by skilled workmen should not be
calculated by the time it takes tC
perform the task. Allowance should
be made for the weeks and months
spent by thorough workmen in
learning how to do their work we'll
This knowledge has it's money
value.
While Judge Tracy was on the
circuit, going from court, his trace
broke. The judge spent half an
hour trying to mend it, but to DC
purpose. His patience was ex-
hausted and he expressed his vexa
alton in words. A negro came
along and the judge told him of his
trouble.
The negro let out the trace and
cut hole in it and the job was
done.
why" said the judge, "could
not have thought of that?''
well, marster," said the negro,
"don't you know some folks is nat.
urally smarter than t'othersS"
That's so" said the judge.
"What shall l pay you for fixing
my tracer
"Well, marster, fifty cents will
do" said the negro.
FIFTY cents" said the judge
"You were not five minutes at it,
81 do not charge You fifty cents
for doing it," said the negro. 81
charge you twenty five cents for do
irg it and twenty-five cents fol-
knowing how to do it,"-Savannat
News,
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After Donelson's Surrender.

mingled very freely with the
confedate prisoners Immediately al
ter the surrender. They were, save
in their officers, a rather scaly lot,
dressed in their every day clothes,
and looked as if just from the farm
or the workshop. AT the outset of
surrender they were possessed with
the idea that they would be massa
cred. ! was talking with group
of them in the streets ofDover when
a gun in the hands of some federal
in the vicinity was discharged, and
instantly there was CONSERVATION
and anxiety on every face.
They're commencing to shoot
the prisoners" calculated a slender
young fellow, with suddenly
blanched features, close to me. /
undecelved him, and told him that
the yankees were not savages and
that they would all be cared for as
prisoners of war Many Of the
prisoners were mere boys who
should have been at home under the
cover of the mothers aprons. 1t
was savagely cold, and they were
without proper covering. They
we're eager to know when they would
be permitted to go south. l as
sured them that they would proba-
bly, be soon exchanged or paroled,
but 1 was mistaken. They were
needed to grace the triumph of a
conqueror, and were sent mainly to
Chicago, where they stimulated an
apathetio patriotism, and thousands
of them left their bones in an un-
distinguishable grave near the site
of CamplDouglas. saw two steam
ers ladened With these prisoners
land at Cairo. The lower decks,
the cabins and hurricane decks
we're thronged with them like clus-
tiers of bees. The wind swept down
on them from the north and froze
the very marrow in their bones.
The lines, spsrs and guards were
covered with ice and frozen snow;
it was a terrible change; they were
without blankets or any protection
against the cold; and in their hun
ger, exposure and semi-nakedness
they must have infinitely missed
the sunny soutb.-Chicago Times.
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A friend who for many years was
a terrible sufferer from periodical
attacks of nervous headache, was
telling me recently that he had dis
covered the cause of bis trouble to
be the use of tea. Since he had
stopped drinking it, some months
ago, his general health has much
improved, and there had been 70
symptoms during that time of u re
turn Of the old disorder. Kaowing
that enc mans food is smother
mans poison, concluded that
what my triend found hurtful WAS
a blessing to the remainder of man
kind, but yesterday / met another
acquaintance who told me the same
story of himself. No reformed
drunkard is more Jealous in urging
his comrades to abandon the cur
than is this gentleman 10 depicting
to his friends the misery and pain
that are caused bv Chinas enerva-
ting beverage. The physical and
mental inleriority of the Chinese te
European races is entirely owing
be. urges, TO their iinmoderate use
of tea, and if the Caucassians are tc
maintain their present supremacy
, in the world they will have t,
smash the tea -pot.--Chicago Jour
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starting up a new business than IN
the ordinary line of other trade. Go
to some towns and you will be met
by an entirely different spirit. And
if you mean business, will find citi
zens willing to extend aid that will
be of substantial nature. Such
towns, where this class Of people
live, grow. They make business;
they encourage manufacturers,
tring customers and make more
business. Manufacturing towns
contain more or less non producers,
but they are customers and create q
demand for everything the farmer
raises. This brings the farmers &c
the town to sell their products, and
as a consequence increases the
amount of business. This make.
more non producers and increases
the number of consumers, and this
still makes or creates more bust
ness. Natural advantages coun
e but little against energy, capita
j and business enterprise. Witt
these necessaries they may be mad
: valuable. But the class that 81
= down and wait for something t
= turn up will not be the ones to tax
: advantage of this.
The writer of the foregoing fror
4 an exchange must have had Pulss
3 XII in his mind. Don't you thin
: so, reader?
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A Silent Telephone,

A few favored gentlemen who
we're gathered in the private office
of Mr.. George Westinghouse the
other afternoon witnessed test of
new telephone appliance which is
far more wonderful than the tele-
phone now in use. II was being
exhibited by Lowth, the inventor.
One Of those who were present gave
description of it without going in
to technicAlities.
It is a very simple continuance
and may not inappropriately be
termed a dumb telephone, as it has
no transmitter, properly speaking,
the conversation being carried on by
means of a receiver alone. At
tached to the receiving tube, which
is shaped somewhat different from
those now in use, is single wire to
the end of which is a sensitive APP
pliance which presses against the
larynx and glands of the neck, and
as the jaws are moved in converse
ton the motion sends the words
spoken along the wire as distinctly
as the telephone now in use, and ills
claimed more distinctly. There is
no necessity for yelling at the man
at the other end of the line, and no
use for it. as there is no receiver to
shout it into, and, as will he seen
by the above description of the con-
trivsnce, the sounds and words are
conveyed by the gentle motiQn Of
the jaws
The operation of the new tele-
phone is wonderful in the extreme,
and all who saw express their aston
ishment. To one of these the in 4.
ventor turned and said that it was
far less wonderful than the
mode of versation he had wit
messed IN New England town sev-
eral years since. This CONVERSE
ton, he stated, had given him the
idea which led to the invention, and
it. took place between q man who
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-03-31
$500 to a Family,

An exchange says that Cincinna-
ii has church to every 1920 in
habitants and a saloon to every 100
inhabitants.
The city now has population of
about 100000. Think for a mo-
ment what an enormous sum the
people mus. pay to keep up her
5000 saloons. Estimating one IN an
to each FIVE of population and it
would appear that 20 men must sup.
port saloon; but as some men do
not drink it will be nearer the truth
to say that Is men, or rather 10
families on an average, pay the
cost of keeping up a saloon. In
Guiding rent, fixtures, barkeepers
etc, in addition to liquors it would
not be safe to estimate the yearly
cost Of keeping an average saloon
at less than $4,000. Ifthis is abou'
the correct sum each family mus
pay an average of 5000 year to-
wards supporting these dens of in
iquity. Is it any wonder that Thu
poor are growing poorer in ou
larger cities?